Sinister: everyday is like tuesday.

[Lardot Janne RL]

(...continuing using perverted smiths lyrics in subject lines since 04/2000)

hello, strange friends, and friendly strangers.

i wish i could one day send a happy mail to sinister. sadly, i think this might
be one of the last ones, happy or otherwise. i'll soon have to prefix my
favorite word, sinister, with an unthinkable and unwelcome verb.

unsubscribe.

unsubscribe sinister.

sending that mail won't be easy. you see, i'm hooked. on sinister. the
b&s-dreams. the witty subject lines. the imaginative e-mail addresses... all
the lovely, lovely people...

i'm so depressed. finland, my "glorious" country, has dropkicked me in the
teeth for the last time. finland, one of the last western europe countries to
succesfully avoid true democracy, has requested, nay, insisted that i should do
my military service now. or rather, the twee, gun-hating, violence avoiding,
bloody pacifist scum, alternative to military service. yes, lucky me, 12 months
of free slave labor in some goverment sponsored place await me.

conscription might not mean anything much to some of you, so let me explain.
most finnish people live in a collective state of paranoia of being attacked by
"an unknown threat from east". as anyone with a bit of sense know this is
clearly bollocks. anyway, as we "heroically" beat the soviets off about 55
years ago, (by allying with the nazis, no less) military service and the
finnish army are respected, no, revered by the average finnish person, and
anyone taking the sensible pacifist alternative of civil service is, well, if
not shunned by people, then at least widely disrespected. here pacifism is not
even nearly as valued as patriotism...

anyway, i'll be off in a month or two to "do" "my service" to my "beloved"
country. bah.

and the absolutely worst thing is that my parents have a huge problem with me
not doing "the honorable" thing (ie. me not going to the army). my own parents!
clearly i was not only born to the wrong family, but to the wrong country,
maybe even the wrong planet...

my only chance to avoid the dreaded civil service is to find a study place in
some foreign country. bet that will be easy to do in a month or so...

so that's why i'm depressed. any offers of sympathy will be gratefully accepted.

- whine over -

oh, and a big massive shout out to the great robert "robert smith" smith of
this very list, who is an absolute star of man, even if he has a somewhat
unfortunate name...

so i was in london earlier. it was grate. i met some sinister people, and they
were grate too. thanks, everyone.

have to dash off now. keep it real, he said with a scandinavian accent.

- j a n n e -

p.s. this little gem of a song came up today, when i was tiredly clicking the
fantastic "belle and sebastian song generator". enjoy.

Cat in corduroys
Cat in corduroys
Loves choirboys
But Laura turns away
Wishing you were round the way
Well, wouldn't anyone?

You're hiding in a cardigan
You're hiding in a girl
Mary Jo explains
But Mary Jo's a fool
Mary Jo explains:
The cloud is as calm as string
And the sun is lonely

The sun is lonely
Lonely, lonely, lonely...

cat in corduroys? you're hiding in a girl? what can it all mean?
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